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Performance of qSOFA, SIRS, and the qSOFA + SIRS combinations for predicting 30-day adverse outcomes in patients with suspected infection

Medizinische Klinik - Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin, 2021
The use of the quick sequential organ failure assessment score (qSOFA) score and systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria to identify patients at high risk for adverse outcomes in the emergency department (ED) remains controversial due to their low predictive performance and lack of supporting evidence.
Olcay Yeşil, Murat Pekdemir, İbrahim Ulaş Özturan, Nurettin Özgür Doğan, Elif Yaka, Serkan Yılmaz, Adnan Karadaş, Seda Güney Pınar   +7 more
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Use of the qSOFA Score in the Emergency Department

JAMA, 2017
The quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) score is much simpler and faster to accomplish than other screening tools and does not require results from laboratory analyses or invasive monitoring. It represents a useful score for the emergency department and ward. The study by Dr Freund and colleagues1 concluded that “qSOFA resulted in greater
Christian S, Scheer, Sven-Olaf, Kuhn, Sebastian, Rehberg   +2 more
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Lactate ≥2 mmol/L plus qSOFA improves utility over qSOFA alone in emergency department patients presenting with suspected sepsis

Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2017
AbstractObjectiveThe Sepsis‐3 task force recommends the use of the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) score to identify risk for adverse outcomes in patients presenting with suspected infection. Lactate has been shown to predict adverse outcomes in patients with suspected infection. The aim of the study is to investigate the utility of a
Amith Shetty, Stephen PJ MacDonald, Julian M Williams, John van Bockxmeer, Bas de Groot, Laura M Esteve Cuevas, Annemieke Ansems, Malcolm Green, Kelly Thompson, Harvey Lander, Jaimi Greenslade, Simon Finfer, Jonathan Iredell   +12 more
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Determining Outcomes in Nonpenetrating Trauma With qSOFA

Journal of Surgical Research
The quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) score identifies patients with suspected infection at high risk for adverse outcomes. The qSOFA score is the sum of three variables (respiratory rate, systolic blood pressure, and Glasgow Coma Score) with binary thresholds.
Josue R. Merida, Elliot Sanchez, Ambika Mukhi, Zaina Naeem, Patricia Eckardt, Charles Fasanya, James Vosswinkel, Helen Hsieh, Randeep S. Jawa   +8 more
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Comparison of SOFA Score, SIRS, qSOFA, and qSOFA

2021
Objective: Sepsis has been defined as a life-threatening organ dysfunction that develops as a result of impaired host response to infection. This study aimed to investigate sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score, systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), quick SOFA (qSOFA), and qSOFA + lactate criteria (qSOFA+L) in the diagnosis and ...
Turken, Melda, Toker, Aysin Kilinc, Kose, ŞÜKRAN   +2 more
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Use of the qSOFA Score in the Emergency Department—Reply

JAMA, 2017
Dr Scheer and colleagues have 3 concerns about our study: questionable definitions, inconsistent methods, and a data set that includes missing values. The definition of “severe sepsis” that we used may not capture all patients in this category, particularly those with organ dysfunction and normal lactate levels.
Freund, Yonathan, Bloom, Ben, Riou, Bruno   +2 more
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Screening for sepsis: SIRS or qSOFA? A literature review

Emergency Nurse, 2019
In 2016, definitions of sepsis and septic shock were updated to focus on organ dysfunction rather than systemic inflammatory response as the identifying trait. This article aims to compare and evaluate the effectiveness of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) in detecting sepsis in ...
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Pre-hospital qSOFA as a predictor of sepsis and mortality

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2019
The quick sequential organ failure assessment score (qSOFA) has been proposed as a simple tool to identify patients with sepsis who are at risk for poor outcomes. Its utility in the pre-hospital setting has not been fully elucidated.This is a retrospective observational study of adult patients arriving by ambulance in September 2016 to an academic ...
Eileen Shu, Crystal Ives Tallman, William Frye, Jonathan G. Boyajian, Leyla Farshidpour, Megann Young, Danielle Campagne   +6 more
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